God with You

Find God's peace in today's anxious world with this year-long journey through the Bible.

Today's teenagers are all too familiar with fear, anxiety, polarization, and performance pressure. The demands of an increasingly virtual world coupled with the instability of a culture of outrage and angst has left our teens anxious and vulnerable.

Crafted with this reality in mind, God With You is a 52-week chronological exploration of God's story in Scripture. Teenagers will experience Jesus as the lifter of their burdens and the source of their rest and hope.

Each of the fifty-five contributors is a youth minister, teacher, or parent skilled in communicating the gospel to teenagers. Daily entries are filled with warmth and reassurance--as if the writer is talking with a teenager about the Bible over coffee or pizza.

Included in each of the 260 entries are:

• Bible Learning: discover the redemptive narrative of the Bible and how the day's passages proclaim God's gracious character and point to Jesus.
• Gospel Application for Today: helps teenage readers discover how the biblical story applies to their lives, today. Each entry demonstrates how knowing Jesus helps teenagers deal with their burdens of identity-seeking, anxiety and depression, relational strife, injustice, and more from diverse perspectives.
• Deep Reassurance: focuses on the goodness of God and his forgiveness through the work of Christ, instead of dwelling on moral failures and spiritual to-do lists.

To see Jesus in the pages of Scripture is to know him; to know him is to love him. The God With You devotional encourages teenagers to place their hope in the steadfast love and trustworthy character of Jesus, our Immanuel, God-with-us.

Rooted Ministry is a non-profit organization equipping churches and parents to faithfully disciple the next generation to lifelong faith in Jesus Christ. Rooted’s training resources include curriculum for youth and children's ministry, training courses for family discipleship and ministry training, annual conferences and training events, books, articles, podcasts, webinars, mentorship programs, and more, all with the mission to promote gospel-centered, grace-filled, Bible-saturated discipleship at church and at home. For more information, visit rootedministry.com.

Cameron Cole (MA, Wake Forest University, MDiv, Reformed Theological Seminary) is the founder of Rooted Ministry, the author of Therefore I Have Hope: 12 Truths That Comfort, Sustain, and Redeem in Tragedy, and the coeditor of Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry and The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School.

Chelsea Kingston Erickson (MDiv, ThM) is editor-in-chief for Rooted Ministry Rooted and a former youth minister. Chelsea holds an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where she is currently pursuing a Master of Theology in Old Testament Studies.

Anna Meade Harris (MA) is the senior director of content at Rooted Ministry, co-host of the Rooted Parent podcast, author of God’s Grace for Every Family (Zondervan, 2024, winner of Christianity Today’s 2024 Book Award in the Marriage, Family, and Singleness category).